Fencing
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, eight events in fencing were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre), but women competed only in foil events.[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual épée
 Győző Kulcsár
 Hungary		 Grigory Kriss
 Soviet Union		 Gianluigi Saccaro
 Italy
team épée
  Hungary (HUN)
Csaba Fenyvesi
Zoltan Nemere
Pál Schmitt
Gyözö Kulcsar
Pal Nagy		  Soviet Union (URS)
Grigory Kriss
Iosif Vitebsky
Aleksei Nikanchikov
Yuri Smolyakov
Viktor Modzalevsky		  Poland (POL)
Bogdan Andrzejewski
Michał Butkiewicz
Bogdan Gonsior
Henryk Nielaba
Kazimierz Barburski
individual foil
 Ion Drîmbă
 Romania		 Jenő Kamuti
 Hungary		 Daniel Revenu
 France
team foil
  France (FRA)
Daniel Revenu
Gilles Berolatti
Christian Noël
Jean-Claude Magnan
Jacques Dimont		  Soviet Union (URS)
German Sveshnikov
Yuri Sharov
Vasili Stankovich
Viktor Putyatin
Yuri Sisikin		  Poland (POL)
Witold Woyda
Zbigniew Skrudlik
Ryszard Parulski
Egon Franke
Adam Lisewski
individual sabre
 Jerzy Pawłowski
 Poland		 Mark Rakita
 Soviet Union		 Tibor Pézsa
 Hungary
team sabre
  Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Nazlymov
Viktor Sidyak
Eduard Vinokurov
Mark Rakita
Umar Mavlikhanov		  Italy (ITA)
Wladimiro Calarese
Michele Maffei
Cesare Salvadori
Pierluigi Chicca
Rolando Rigoli		  Hungary (HUN)
Tamás Kovács
János Kalmár
Péter Bakonyi
Miklós Meszéna
Tibor Pézsa

Women's events

Games Gold Silver Bronze
individual foil
 Elena Belova
 Soviet Union		 Pilar Roldán
 Mexico		 Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő
 Hungary
team foil
  Soviet Union (URS)
Aleksandra Zabelina
Tatyana Samusenko
Elena Belova
Galina Gorokhova
Svetlana Tširkova		  Hungary (HUN)
Lidia Dömölki-Sakovics
Ildikó Bóbis
Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő
Maria Jarmy
Paula Marosi-Foldesi		  Romania (ROU)
Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl
Ileana Gyulai-Drimba-Jenei
Maria Vicol
Olga Orban-Szabo
Ana Dersidan-Ene-Pascu

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)3407
2 Hungary (HUN)2237
3 Poland (POL)1023
4 France (FRA)1012
 Romania (ROU)1012
6 Italy (ITA)0112
7 Mexico (MEX)0101
Totals (7 entries)88824

Participating nations

A total of 275 fencers (217 men and 58 women) from 34 nations competed at the Mexico City Games:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Fencing: 1968 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2010-12-23.

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